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Apr 22, 2008 9:35 am US/Central
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In The Know: National Turn-Off-The-TV Week
(WCCO)
This is National Turn-Off-The-TV Week. It is an effort to bring families together around something other than the TV set for a week. Don Shelby says this year the sponsors have had to expand their scope.
It used to be Turn-Off-The-TV Week, but now it is turn off anything with a monitor, or a screen, or headsets. You are going to have to turn off the Xbox, the Wii, the DVD player, the computer and the iPod.
Promoters hope that this will force members of the family to actually look at each other when they are speaking.
There are now more television sets in America than people. Studies have found that a child who watches one hour of television a day has a 10 percent greater likelihood of developing ADHD. The average kid watches more than four hours of television a day. So, that's what, a 40 percent greater likelihood of hyperactivity?
The sponsors don't want people to throw out their electronics. They just want a pause in the action so that family members might reacquaint themselves with one another, maybe even go outside and play.
I support the idea, except between 10 o'clock and 10:35 weeknights, right here on WCCO Four News at 10.
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